The exhibition by Julien Prévieux, winner of the 2014 Marcel Duchamp Prize, "Des corps schématiques", running until 1 February 2016 at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), is not, strictly speaking, mathematical art, but since its theme is the recording of movement, some of the artist's geometric obsessions inevitably appear.
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However you look at the paintings, it is hard to substantiate the idea that the golden ratio's presence in art gives a work some decisive aesthetic quality. Let's see where φ really lurks...
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